Hot on the heels of his adventures in the Sahara, Michael Palin takes on a 3,000-mile journey across the greatest mountain range on earth. Encountering extremes of wealth and poverty, altitude and temperature, he once again brings his unique wit, charm and wisdom to a geographical land which remains the world's most majestic natural border, and a meeting place of different cultures, religions and races.
Filmed over six months, Palin takes on the full length of the Himalaya (which is Sanskrit for 'Abode of Snow') including the Khyber Pass and the Silk Road, the hidden valleys of the Hindu Kush, the mighty peaks of Everest and K2, and the gorges of the Yangtze.
He passes through a fascinatingly mixed bag of countries: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, China, and secretive, unconquered mountain kingdoms like Nepal and Bhutan, as well as one of the most volatile regions in the world, Kashmir Along the way he encounters, amongst many others, the Dalai Lama, the Bhutanese Royal Family, and the once feared head-hunting tribe of the Konyak.
Even counting for illness, altitude sickness and political flashpoints, Michael Palin discovers a region permeated by every sort of human activity in a journey he describes as 'a wonderfully, magically, brilliant journey, with more gasps of astonishment per square mile than any other in my entire life.'
Written By : Neil Postman and Steve Powers
Peformed By : Jeff Riggenbach
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 4 hours 30 minutes
Categories : TV Non Fiction
Price : $39.95 $12.95
Neil Postman, an author and academic, and Steve Powers, a television journalist, reveal the difference between what TV news says it is presenting and what it actually delivers, entertainment fodder versus genuine news. They explain why TV news has become a “cash cow,” pointing to the symbiotic... View...
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Written By : Michael Palin
Peformed By : Michael Palin
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 5 hours 40 minutes
Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Non Fiction
Price : $26.99
Three years after going Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again. View...
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Written By : Dawna Walter
Peformed By : Dawna Walter
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 1 hour 10 minutes
Categories : Self Help Self Help Non Fiction
Price : $13.49
An inspirational guide to fighting clutter and sorting your space. View...
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Written By : Neil Postman
Peformed By : Jeff Riggenbach
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 5 hours
Categories : TV Non Fiction
Price : $39.95 $14.95
In this eloquently persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs and how “entertainment values” have corrupted even the way we think. Postman believes that public discourse, the advancing of arguments... View...
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Written By : Michael Palin
Peformed By : Michael Palin
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 7 hours 35 minutes
Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Biographical British TV Non Fiction
Price : $31.99
Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. View...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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